| Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis Contributor(s): Jackson, Murray (Author), Williams, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1855750759 ISBN-13: 9781855750753 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integrated combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonia, psychotic anorexia and manic-depression. Several depth interviews by Murray Jackson, an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis, are reproduced for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| LCCN: 94097986 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.18" W x 9.04" (0.91 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital, in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia, catatonia, psychotic anorexia and manic-depression. Several depth interviews by the author, an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced for the first time. |